“AWOMB WHISPERS: PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF GARBHASANSKAR PRACTICES DURING PREGNANCY.”

Abstract

BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY: Pregnancy is Psychological and Physiological events of every Women’s life. A
pregnant woman experiences mixed emotions which gives her overwhelm feelings. Which may cause negative and
positive impact on mothers and babies health. Positive emotions like love, joy, gratitude, healthy thoughts by parents
brings good growth of the unborn child in the womb. While negative thoughts like depression, stress brings injuries to
unborn baby in the mother’s womb. So, it is necessary to have healthy mental and physical status during pregnancy
which is achieved by practicing Garbhasanskar practices. Garbhasanskar means education of baby in the womb.
Aims: To access the knowledge of antenatal mother’s regarding garbhasanskar during pregnancy.
Method: A qualitative research design in which a phenomenological research design was carried out for this study. The
sample size of the study is 60 participants were selected using non probability convenience sampling technique. The
tool consists of two parts. First part consists of demographic variable of the sample and second part consist of openended questionnaire.
Result: While assessing the knowledge of antenatal mother’s the highest percentage 63% of people from antenatal
women were educated only till primary, 6.7% of antenatal mother were illiterate, 25% were antenatal women
completed their secondary education and 5% antenatal women competed their graduation.
Conclusion: This study concluded that majority of antenatal women were educated and some of them were illiterate.